Saturday, May 5, 2007

The weekend is for.. & its a Girl!!!!

Finally its the weekend...been looking forward to this for the whole week...can sleep in and all that..relax, go out & walk the streets...and then check schedule..oops...Im on duty..hahaha anyway its alright...so far so good...its gonna be a short post this one...nothing much happening except that my colleague has just delivered her biggest baby ever!! Its a girl...so that makes her head count 1 boy & 3 girls...congrats to you....now d rest of us jus hv to work harder for d 2 mths of ur maternity leave..its ok....hahaha..n its soo cute...

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Incompetence leads to...and then to...?

So Im given a job which is half done..so I gracefully call and follow up..along with a tip to ensure the results can be obtained..and then the *&^%& nurse goes ahead and gives me the wrong thing...so anyway I manage to run the job but not enough sample to finish running everything, call the aformentioned person(gracefully again I might add..) to verify why exactly she cant follow advice...reasons like she will get killed if she asks the patient again a 3rd time..no more specific test tube so she run using another type which caused the problem in the first place..when she knows perfectly well that we have stock of the specific tubes needed...so I grab 3 boxes and deliver it upstairs on my own initiative...and get scolded by the doctor for not specifying that since I have only so little sample I should call and ask which test to do/prioritize????!!!!!

Hello, it is NOT our perogative to ask which tests are to be prioritized..if anything it should be the doctor's perogative to indicate which is more important, or at least the nurse's perogative to ask the doc and indicate which is more important lah....what am I, a fortune teller?? SO let me get this straight, everytime the doctor asks for more than 1 test, I have to call and ask which is more important...wow in that case I would have no more time to do any other work then....then what is the use of a nurse who gets paid more than I but has absolutely no initiative to do her job properly?? Ie ask the doctor to indicate which test is more important, or realise that the patient is difficult and so at least take initiative & use common sense to select a more appropriate tube I mean c'mon will somebody just shoot me here..nothing I do is right apparently...

and this right after I went for therapeutic massage..darn if I had known this would happen today I would have held off and just went tonight instead...oh well, whats done is done, and I have a back which looks like I got hugged by an octopus..yep, I did the traditional Chinese cup suction thingy which supposedly sucks out the 'bad wind' from the body...well, felt lighter..but only for a night...duh considering what happened.. *knocks head in frustration against a wall*